WATERBURY – A morning shooting Tuesday outside of Waterbury Superior Court left a man with a gunshot wound to the leg, which authorities suspect is tied to escalating violence between groups in the city. Multiple pops of gunfire were heard…

WATERBURY – The Board of Parks Commissioners on Tuesday turned down two competing proposals to rename the North End Recreation Center for upstanding African American men whose lives were cut short. The seven-member board unanimously voted to instead ask both…

TORRINGTON – A Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered a city man with an extensive history of drug convictions held on $150,000 bond. In doing so, Judge Paul Matasavage rejected public defender James Longwell’s bid to have Damon Spencer, 41,…

WATERBURY For more than a century, Joseph P. Nolan’s family has used Old Saint Joseph Cemetery for its burial grounds, including for several generations of veterans. That’s one of the reasons it’s so distressing, he said, to see the ragged…

KENT Tim Groski has delivered much more than packages during his years in Kent. The United Parcel Service driver retired Friday after 40 years of service, 33 of them in Kent. The familiar brown truck, which wends its way along…

BURLINGTON – State police arrested a Burlington man on drug and weapons charges following a seven-month undercover investigation by state and Bristol police. Gregory J. Hebert, 45, of 51 Main St., was arrested on Dec. 27 and will be arraigned…

STATE – Connecticut State Police responded to nearly 500 accidents, two of which were fatal, during the four-day New Year’s holiday. Police on Tuesday announced that they responded to 494 accidents during the enforcement period that started at 12:01 a.m….

WATERBURY – The city’s two golf courses should shortly have permanent golf pros picked. Mark Lombardo, supervisor for parks and golf courses, told the Board of Parks Commissioners Tuesday he’d recently advertised the jobs. The seven-year contracts of the last…

WATERBURY – Waterbury will get a winter festival if William DeMaida has anything to say about it. DeMaida, a member of the city’s Board of Parks Commissioners, got approval Tuesday to lead an ad hoc committee planning a winter festival….

TORRINGTON — Ousted Torrington Middle School Principal Valerie Bruneau filed a lawsuit in Torrington Superior Court on Tuesday against the city’s Board of Education and Superintendent Denise L. Clemons. Bruneau, who was hired in May and fired in September of last…

LITCHFIELD — Because of the sub-zero temperatures and snow forecast for Thursday, Louis The Coin Colavecchio’s appearance at the Litchfield-Morris Rotary Club has been postponed. A new date will be set by the end of the month. Related

WATERBURY – A brazen morning shooting outside of Waterbury Superior Court has left a man with a gunshot wound to the leg and has closed a portion of State Street. Multiple pops of gunfire were heard at about 11:15 a.m….

HARTFORD — Waterbury Mayor Neil M. O’Leary took over Monday as the president of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, a statewide association representing 166 of the state’s 169 towns and cities. O’Leary has been mayor of the state’s fifth largest city since December 2011….

WATERBURY – The driver of a dump truck that hit and killed a 69-year-old grandmother in Southbury will be sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal hashed out in Waterbury Superior Court, according to recently…

LITCHFIELD – State and local fire investigators are investigating the cause of a blaze at a group home in the Northfield section Sunday night. Litchfield Fire Marshal Samuel Kinkade said he is “still trying to put the pieces together” to…

TORRINGTON – A civil case against her now over, Elizabeth Waterbury will return to Superior Court Jan. 11 where criminal charges alleging she caused a fatal crash in Litchfield 15 months ago will move toward trial or end with a…

WATERBURY – A suspected whipping post removed from the City Green in July following public outcry is sitting in storage at the Mattatuck Museum. It will be several months, at least, before the museum has finished its research and is…

LITCHFIELD – A new year got off to a comical and profitable start Monday as the Possum Queen Contest returned to the Litchfield Inn and likely established a record for the amount of money raised. The previous record of $70,000…

LITCHFIELD – Forty-two hardy runners braved bitter cold in starting off 2018 with the Milton Resolution Run on Monday. The 5-mile race sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department and directed by John Baker of Milton typically draws more than…

WATERBURY – New Saint Mary’s Hospital President Dr. Steve Schneider wants to change the city of Waterbury and the nature of health care in Connecticut. With the help of the hospital’s new parent nonprofit, Trinity Health Of New England, Schneider…